SQL Injection in Contest Gallery
CVE-2021-24915
The Contest Gallery WordPress plugin before 13.1.0.6 does not have capability checks and does not sanitise or escape the cg-search-user-name-original parameter before using it in a SQL statement when exporting users from a gallery, which could allow unauthenticated to perform SQL injections attacks, as well as get the list of all users registered on the blog, including their username and email address
Vulnerability class: SQL Injection
EPSS: 0.127 (95.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
Affected products
- Contest_gallery
- Unknown Contest Gallery – Photo Plugin For Wordpress — versions 13.1.0.6
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
- contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2021-24915?
- CVE-2021-24915 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Contest Gallery, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2021-11-29.
- How severe is CVE-2021-24915?
- Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2021-24915 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.